meehawl

all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned

Looking for the Exit Signs

by ·

After nearly two years of fighting, parts of the insurgency in Iraq are prepared to talk and move toward putting away their arms–and the U.S. is willing to listen … sources in Washington told TIME that for the first time the U.S. is in direct contact with members of the Sunni insurgency, including former members of Saddam’s Baathist regime … Their model is Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, which ultimately earned the I.R.A. a role in the Northern Ireland peace process. “That’s what we’re working for, to have a political face appear from the battlefield, to unify the groups, to resist the aggressor and put our views to the people”.

1 Response

  1. Anonymous says:
    2005-03-11 at 10:11:12

    see the cover article from the Onion

Leave a Reply